Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — Annual Jubilee. [ARTICLE]

Annual Jubilee.

Tde harvest is over, the summer almost ended, bringing abundant crops, thus rewarding skill and industry. The Fair season is here, and the agricultural community will gratefully acknowledge the blessings of a kind Providence in bestowing good health and a fruitful season by attending the annual festivles and showing the improvements resulting from intelligent culture. Successful county fairs insure a good State exhibition, and indications point to an excellent fair season, Beingan “off year” from political disturbance, prompts the management to extra exertions in making the forthcoming Indiana State Fair, September 23d to 28th, excel in every respect. The Board of Agriculture can make a better showing financially than any other institution of the kind in this country, thus proving the solid basis on which- the business management operates. The Agricultural Fair is an American institution, and came to stay, not only as a mart of trade, but the social features predominate in a way no other character of gathering can equal, and is now recognized as the “Harvest Jublilee” in more sense than one. . Indiana is the center of the breeding grounds of improved live stock, and the State Fair the nucleus where will concentrated the competitors in the “battle of breeds.” - Superior accommodations for exhibitors and visitors. An increased list of premiums, including Lady Equestrianism. More favorable railroad rates are applied for, to give those at a distance the opportunity of visiting the best Agricultural Fair on the continent, and the Capital City with its many attractions.